Tool Size

[bksboiler]

First let me thank everyone for all the great information.

I'm just starting and the forum has been very helpful. I've been looking at many of the stamping tools that many of you have recommended as upgrades from the Tandy kit tools. My question is on tool sizes. Most tools have a size assigned but no physical dimension. First is the size corresponded to a specific physical size. For example does a size 6 basket stamp have a specific width and length? If so is this standard across all makers?

I hope it's question isn't too basic and I didn't miss it in my searches. Thanks for the help.

[bruce johnson]

Welcome, and being you are from Indiana, I am hoping the "boiler" part of your screen name refers to Purdue. Spent 6 years there. To answer your question within a maker, the sizes may be pretty much standard from one type of basket stamp to another for instance. Then again handmades may vary a bit. Between makers nothing is a standard.

[bksboiler]

Bruce

Thanks for the clarification. Your right on with the "boiler" I studied Ag at Purdue. Glad to hear from another boilermaker.

I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question. Some of your other posts have been very helpful to me as I'm getting started.

Thanks

Brian

[bruce johnson]

Brian - what year? I was there from 78-84. Two years of animal science and 4 years of vet school. Spent a lot of time the first wo years playing euchre in the lobby of Lilly Hall. Probably should have been in classes, but as the old saying goes"'there's more to an education than getting an education".

[bksboiler]

Bruce-- I was there just a few years after you. From 94-98 I studied agronomy. When i was there we called the marble in the lobby the "slab". I wasted my fair share of time down there too.